boring the reader to death (wasRe: Lambda: the Ultimate Design Flaw

[Sunnan]

Tim Peters wrote:
> [Aahz]
> 
>>>"The joy of coding Python should be in seeing short, concise, readable
>>>classes that express a lot of action in a small amount of clear code --
>>>not in reams of trivial code that bores the reader to death."  --GvR
> 
> 
> [Sunnan]
> 
>>Can anyone please point me to the text that quote was taken from? I
>>tried to use a search engine but I only found quotations, not the source.
> 
> 
> That's because it was originally in email to a company-internal
> mailing list.  If you're willing to move to Fredericksburg, VA and
> work for Zope Corp, perhaps they'll let you in to the PythonLabs list
> archives.  Fair warning:  I work for Zope Corp, and I'm not sure I can
> get into those archives.  So don't switch jobs _just_ for that.

It's just that I'm having a hard time matching that quote to what I 
though python was about. I thought boring code was considered a virtue 
in python. ("Explicit is better than implicit", "sparse is better than 
dense".)

Because what is "boring"? The opposite of dense, tense, intense. Utterly 
predictable; it's like the combination of all my prejudices. Even before 
I knew, I thought "Bet Python separates statements from expressions".


Sunnan
PS.
(People easily offended can substitute "boring" for "readable" in the 
above text.)